Solutions Storytelling: Messaging to Mobilize Support for Children's Issues
For anyone involved in social change communications, this report provides evidence and guidance on connecting people to stories that demonstrate what works.
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Stateline.org: Where Policy and Politics News Click
Online news service for state public policy information from Pew Charitable Trusts; focus on important state-level issues such as healthcare, tax and budget policy, the environment, welfare reform,
Strategic Budget Cutting
How can your organization implement budget cuts without compromising it's mission? Find tips and best practices for developing a strategy for budget cuts.
Strategic Co-funding: An Approach for Expanded Impact
Although co-funding is not a new idea recent efforts have contributed to a more sophisticated understanding of how to ensure that co-funding arrangements have the desired impact.
Strategic Philanthropy: Five Approaches for Making a Difference
This booklet shares five approaches to help philanthropists choose an approach that best accomplishes their goals.
Streamlining Online Grant Applications: A Review of Vendors
Funders can read reviews of seven vendors evaluated for their online applications and reporting features.
Strengthening Organizations to Mobilize Californians
The Strengthening Organizations Initiative shares lessons learned from helping community-organizing nonprofits strengthen their organizations.
Success by Design: How R&D Activates Program Innovation and Improvement in the Nonprofit Sector
This TCC Briefing Paper positions R&D as an alternative to "traditional evaluation" as a way to improve social innovation in the nonprofit sector.
Supporting Vulnerable Children and Families: Innovative Approaches for Individual Philanthropists and Small Family Foundations
This guide developed by the Annie E.
Talking to Ourselves? A Critical Look At Annual Reports in Foundation Communications
A new report co-produced by the Philanthropy Awareness Initiative, the Williams Group, and the Communications Network, explores the value of foundation annual reports: why we do them and whether they do any good. Is there a better way for foundations to communicate about their work?
Tax Information for Charities and Other Nonprofits from the Internal Revenue Service
Access official tax information and resources for charities and other nonprofits from the Internal Revenue Service.
TCC Group's Funder's Giving Tree
Are your grantees ready for General Operating Support?
Tech-Savvy Communications: A Toolkit for Nonprofits
Toolkit from NPower Seattle focusing on effective message development for nonprofits and surveying tech-savvy communications channels such as RSS feeds, blogs and podcasts.
Ten Cool Tools for Working on the Web
Find ten tools for online research, collaboration, and productivity from NTEN.
The Best of Both Worlds: Using Private Foundations and Donor-Advised Funds
The Association of Small Foundations and the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund report "The Best of Both Worlds: Using Private Foundations and Donor-Advised Funds" provides an analysis of donor-advised
The Center for What Works Toolkits
WhatWorks.org offers benchmarking and evaluation toolkits for many types of nonprofits.
The Evaluation Conversation - A Path to Impact for Foundation Boards and Executives
What would good foundation practice with solid evaluative inquiry at its core look like?
The Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide
Social media can be useful to your organization… but how useful? For what? What tangible results are people seeing from it?
The Nonprofit Social Media Policy Workbook
Idealware's Nonprofit Social Media Policy Workbook shows how to develop policies and practices for your organization.
The Power of Now
This paper seeks to better understand the phenomenon of spending out, based on a sample of existing and recently closed spend out trusts in the United Kingdom.